Pop-gun.



D. HEYMAN & T. R. ARDEN.

POP GUN.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6. IBIS.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

In ven tors.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFIQ.

DAVID HEYMAN AND THOMAS RAYMOND ARDEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. SAID ARDEN ASSIGNOR TO SAID HEYMAN.

POP-GUN.

Application filed July 6, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID HEYMAN and THOMAS RAYMOND ARDEN, citizens of the United States of America, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pop-Guns, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in pop-guns, of the type in which a cork or like object is discharged from the mouth of the gun through the medium of a previously compressed spring. The spring is usually a coil of wire, placed under compression during the breaking of the gun, that is the movement of the barrel relatively to the stock. These guns are especially adapted for use, as toys, by children, and it is desirable that precautions be taken to prevent injury to a child when the cork is discharged from the gun mouth.

Vith this idea in mind, one of the objects of our invention is to provide a form of gun in which the cork may be expelled from the mouth of the gun with a loud noise, but the mov ment of the cork will be so confined as to prevent danger of injury to the user or bystander.

Heretofore it has been necessary, in guns of the type contemplated by our invention, to manually reinsert the cork in the mouth of the gun after each discharge, and a further object of our invention is to provide a structure in which the cork is automatically inserted in the gun, in discharging position, by the action of breaking the gun.

Other objects and features of our invention will be described in the following specification, and the novelty pointed out in the concluding claims.

The concrete form of the invention as at present preferred by us is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevational view partly in section of a pop-gun provided with our invention; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the gun barrel, the gun being shown broken; 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the gun, the position of the parts being that when the gun is broken; Fig. 4: is a detail view of a cap or casing for limiting the movement of the cork when expelled from the gun mouth; and Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view on the line 55 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawing, 10 denotes a Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

Serial No. 38,078.

barrel of usual or ordinary construction, having secured to its rear end, as by means of rivets 11, a trigger guard 12. The trigger guard has a rearward extension 13, to which the stock 14 is pivoted by a stud or pin 15.

Arranged to reciprocate within the gun barrel 1.0 is a piston 16, of suitable structure and composition, the piston being attached to one end of a rod 17 the opposite end 18 of which is formed as a hook designed to engage a scar 19. The scar 19 is pivoted at 20 in the rear portion of the barrel, and is normally pressed upwardly, into position to engage the hook 18, by means of a flat spring 21 suitably secured to the trigger guard 12. The hooked end 18 of the rod 17 engages a slotted link 22, the rear end of which is pivotally carried at on the upper forward portion of the gun stock 14.

livoted at 24 in the rear portion of the gun barrel is a trigger 25, the nose of which is in position to engage and depress the sear 19 when pressure is applied to the trigger. Encircling the forward portion of the rod 17 is a coiled spring 26, one end of which rests against the rear face of the piston 16 and the other end of which rests against a pin 27 passing transversely through the barrel 10.

To keep the barrel and stock in engagement, I pivot to the latter at 28 a latch 29 having a forward hook end 30 designed to enter an aperture 31 in the gun barrel, and

a rear thumb piece 32 normally forced upward by a coiled spring 33, encircling a pin 34: which may pass down into the gun stock through a suitable hole therein.

At its forward end, the gun barrel has fixed therein a thimble 35 designed to receive the cork 36. This thimble is centrally orificed at 37 so that the cork 36 may be exposed to the combined action of compressed air, and impact from the piston 16 when the cork is to be expelled from the gun.

Closing the mouth of the gun barrel is a cap or casing, denoted generally 38, the form of which is particularly shown in Fig. 4. The cap is substantially cylindrical in form, its front wall being perforated at 39 and the cylindrical wall provided with an elongated slot 10, the walls of which engage a guide 41 formed on the under face of the barrel 10. The cap has a pair of parallel, rearwardly extending, perforated 43 of a substantially U-shaped draw-memher which passes loosely through holes 4% in the gun stock, and is there pivotally supported. The ends of the arms 43 are hookshaped so as to engage the lugs 42, and the draw member is preferably madeof spring wire, or analogous material, in order that the arms may be easily sprung into and out of engagement with the lugs 42.

The operation of the invention will be understood from the following description thereof :Let it be assumed that the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1 and that it is desired to discharge the gun. The first action is to break the gun, as a result of which the draw-member 4-3 is pulled back, drawing the cap 38 rearward and forcing the cork 36 into discharge position in the thimble The piston 16 is also drawn back in the barrel 10, compressing the spring 26 between the piston and the pin 27, and the hook 18 of the rod 17 engages the sear 19, so that the spring 20 is held under tension. The gun is then restored whereby the latch hook. 30 engages the orifice 31 and the gun is ready to be dischar ed. To effect the dis-charge, pressure isapplied to the trigger 25, as a result of which the sear 19 is depressed and freed from engagement with the hook 18. Upon release of the hook 18, the spring 26 extends forcing the piston 16 forward in the gun barrel, compressing the air between it self and the cork 86, and expelling the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

same, with a sharp report, out of the thimble 35.

It will be noted that the cork cannot Well fly away from the gun, as its. range of movement is limited by the confining cap 38. In this manner accidents to users of the gun and to bystanders are prevented.

gun, and means for moving said cap to reinsert an object in the gun mouth.

2. In a pop gun, the combination of a gun barrel and a gun stock, a cap over the mouth of said barrel, and means extending from said cap to said stock for operating the cap.

3. In a pop gun, the combination of a. gun barrel and a gun stock, a cap over the mouth of said barrel and a draw member pivoted in the stock and having arms re leasably engaging said cap.

In testimony whereof we have aifiXed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID HEYMAN. THOMAS RAYMOND ARDEN; Witnesses:

SAMUEL ROSENBAUMM, MoLLrE SoHw nTz,

Washington, D. C. 

